Quotes by : Shirley Chisholm

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a....

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and....

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field....

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality for....

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere....

It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is....

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of....